Summary ⁶

The Leach's Storm Petrel or Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

Range description ⁷

Leach's Storm Petrel has an extensive global range. Breeding colonies are confined to the northern hemisphere, from the South Kuril Islands (Japan) round to Baja California (Mexico) including the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (USA) and Canada in the Pacific, and in the north-east North America, Iceland, northern United Kingdom and Norway in the Atlantic. Northern populations migration south into the tropics in winter, reaching the equator in the Pacific and as far south as south Brazil and South Africa in the Atlantic (del Hoyo et al. 1992).

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Marcel Holyoak, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/33816646@N06/5897816187
2. Schlawe, C, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/20982.jpg
3. (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8428/7737756992_31db908b22_b.jpg
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5. (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Orn:363224
6. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanodroma_leucorhoa
7. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/31088875

More Info

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